An Exclusive Interview with Jack Wilshere: "I Never Should Have Left Arsenal"
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by David Ornstein and Arsenal correspondent Amy Lawrence to dissect a brutally honest interview given to The Athletic by former Arsenal, West Ham and England midfielder Jack Wilshere. You'll hear from Wilshere on the difficulties he's had in trying to find a new club, mental health concerns, regrets, as well as, thoughts on Mikel Arteta, Saka, Smith-Rowe and more...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.8 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes. |
| 0:18.7 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast where every Wednesday |
| 0:21.7 | Flo and I will be picking out one article from all the brilliant writing available on the Athletic |
| 0:26.0 | and putting the writers under the spotlight. |
| 0:28.4 | Today, David Ornstein and Arsenal correspondent Amy Lawrence join us to talk about David's exclusive |
| 0:33.6 | and, to be honest, pretty moving interview with Jack Wilshire. |
| 0:37.1 | Fair play to Jack Wilshire, so, so honest and like you say, pretty moving interview with Jack Wilshire. Fair play to Jack Wilshire. |
| 0:38.4 | So, so honest and like you say, very moving as well. |
| 0:41.7 | We'll say hello to them in just a minute. |
| 0:43.5 | But first, flow, let's have a look at a couple of things that have been going on in the football world. |
| 0:48.2 | We'll start with Pyei being hit by a bottle. |
| 0:51.2 | Nice Marseille at the weekend, absolute chaos in France. Yeah, I saw these |
| 0:56.4 | pictures as well after the game of Gwendoosie, obviously former Arsenal player and |
| 1:02.4 | might have been Piat was the other player, but they had like strangle marks on their necks |
| 1:08.8 | from the fans that had got onto the pitch. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, yeah, it was pretty wild. |
| 1:14.9 | And then the match ended up being abandoned. |
| 1:17.1 | And I think a league aren't rules state that even though it was Nice that caused the chaos |
| 1:25.6 | that Nice get awarded a 3-0 win or something like that. |
| 1:29.9 | It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't sound particularly fair, |
| 1:33.1 | but because the match was abandoned, the referee didn't restart it. |
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